On Luxury Spending
What qualifies as luxury spending? Is luxury spending in moderation OK for the Abrahamicly-minded family leader? Is the amount of luxury that is permissible for me relative to my overall income or savings? These questions are great! And super hard to answer! AND, one more thing: if you don’t answer them, our luxury addled culture will answer them for you. This may be one of my all-time favorites from the Abraham’s Wallet vault. Click here to read the original.
24 Jul 201916min
How to Kill $180k of Student Loans in No Time
In this episode we share 4 tactics that helped us to pay down $180k in student loans in less than four years. And, they’re not just for student debt! Apply these to any kind of debt and see huge gains! Check out the original blog post here!
17 Jul 201916min
Michael Foster on Being a Man
In this episode, we break from our usual format to bring you a longer form interview with Mr. Michael Foster, one of the founders of the website It’s Good to be a Man. Michael is a serial-entrepreneur who has been in bi-vocational ministry the better part of his adult life. God has blessed him with a beautiful wife and seven children, and they all just relocated to the Cincinnati area this week. Michael can also be found on Twitter @thisisfoster and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/itsgoodtobeaman/.
9 Jul 201940min
Telling Family Stories
In our culture, when the whole family gets together from grandpa all the way to the newborn cousins, you’ll typically see the youngest people in the crew occupying the seat of honor and attention. At Abraham’s Wallet, we think that might be backwards. In fact, we try to make a habit of soliciting the stories from our older generations – over and over and over – until we can all recite them by heart. In this episode, you’ll get to sit in on storytime, as Steven Manuel’s father Roger tells a few of the stories that shaped him into the family-builder that he has become.
28 Jun 201929min
Down with the Side Hustle – Get Paid to Play!
Ever heard of a “side hustle”? Sure you have: it’s when you find smart ways to bring in extra income (on the SIDE of your primary source of income) through work and hustle. The side hustle has become a cornerstone for the modern idea of working (because “putting in 40 hours for the same company for 50 years” is as out of fashion as the leisure suit), as scads of people put multiple streams of income together to form their self-selected salary. Well, Lots of blogs will tell you that you need a side hustle, but wouldn’t you rather get paid to recreate? See the original post here!
18 Jun 20198min
How to Feed a Family of 5 on $360 per Month
In this special guest episode of the Abraham’s Wallet podcast, hear Alexis Tunnell give you some quick hits on how she manages to feed a family of five humans on a mere $360 per month grocery budget. Then, stick around to hear an interview with the updated tips she has 18 months later, since her original article was published waaaaaay back in 2017. Original blog post can be found right here.
10 Jun 201914min
You Need a Board of Directors
At Abraham’s Wallet, we believe in the real need for heavy community involvement in your financial life. This is both important and totally foreign to us. In an era where social media, that great destructor of actual relationship, has obliterated most social norms (“Don’t talk about politics with people you don’t know well”? Yeah, that sounds almost quaint, now…), you still don’t see people posting their budget or income on the Facebook. But we Kingdom dudes do things quite a bit differently so… Click here for the original blog post!
4 Jun 20199min
A Cautionary Tale of Two Mothers Days
Can I take a moment to address the dads among us? Today, I’m out to tell you a cautionary tale of a series of events that, individually, lie somewhere in the zone of thoughtless oversight, but collectively form a perfect storm of marital horror. Read up gents, and don’t do what I did. See the original blog post here.
24 Mai 201918min
